William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale
4 of 15 portraits by Vincent Brooks
© National Portrait Gallery, London
William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale
by Vincent Brooks, after Sir Francis Grant
lithograph, 1841 or after
18 7/8 in. x 12 7/8 in. (478 mm x 328 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D37437
Sitterback to top
- William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale (1787-1872), Politician; Postmaster General and Lord President of the Council. Sitter in 2 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Vincent Brooks (1814-1885), Lithographer. Artist or producer associated with 15 portraits.
- Sir Francis Grant (1803-1878), Portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Artist or producer associated with 110 portraits, Sitter associated with 21 portraits.
Events of 1841back to top
Current affairs
Sir Robert Peel's second term as Prime Minister. Peel replaces the Whig Prime Minister Lord Melbourne after a Conservative general election victory. The English comic periodical Punch is first published, under the auspices of engraver Ebenezer Landells and writer Henry Mayhew, and quickly establishes itself as a radical commentary on the arts, politics and current affairs, notable for its heavily satirised cartoons.Art and science
Thomas Carlyle publishes his set of lectures On Heroes and Hero Worship, in which he attempts to connect past heroic figures to significant figures form the present.William Henry Fox Talbot invents the calotype process, in which photographs were developed from negatives. This allowed for multiple copies of images to be made, and was the basis of modern, pre-digital, photographic processing.
International
Signing of the Straits Convention, an international agreement between Britain, France, Prussia, Austria, Russia and Turkey, denying access to non-Ottoman warships through the seas connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Seas, a major concession by Russia. Whilst signalling a spirit of co-operation, the convention emphasises the decline of the Ottoman Empire.Comments back to top
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